Review Summary

“Furry Vengeance,” directed by Roger Kumble (“Cruel Intentions”), sets itself apart from most funny-animal movies by using live animals, albeit with a lot of computer graphics and green-screen help. An actual raccoon plots the harassment of Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser), the construction manager for a “green” housing development that will in fact wipe out an entire forest; actual skunks climb into his S.U.V. to do what skunks do. Unlike animated animals, they don’t talk; instead, they squeak and growl in ways that approximate human speech, or at least playground exclamations. If they could talk, they’d be on the phone firing their agents. — Mike Hale